Aeromania and Enlightenment: The Politics of Hot Air Balloons in Karamzin's "Letters of a Russian Traveler"
This paper focuses on Karamzin’s depiction, in Letters of a Russian Traveler, of Abbé Miolan’s failed hot air balloon flight in Paris in July 1784. After briefly tracing the history of aeromania in late eighteenth-century France and England, as well as its contemporary Russian reception, notably by...
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Illinois Open Publishing Network
2020-11-01
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| Series: | Вивліоѳика |
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| Online Access: | https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/vivliofika/article/view/606 |